Welcome to Rowhill Nature Reserve
A nature reserve at the heart of Aldershot since 1968
With sweet chestnuts in autumn and fragrant bluebells in spring, find family trails and shaded dog walks at Rowhill Nature Reserve. Simple to access by foot from the residential areas around, there's also free parking at the Rowhill Field Centre. Join us for affordable family events in Aldershot, expert-led nature walks and forest bathing. Spot deer and squirrels with the children, listen to babbling streams and birdsong on your lunchbreak or take a run along our peaceful paths. To be enjoyed on foot, please find a map below to make the best of the beautiful healthland, woods and ponds. A destination in its own right, it's the source of the River Blackwater and a working copse woodland. We love this place and we hope you will too.
How to visit us
How to get here, where to park, accessibility info and all about the facilities in our field centre under the trees.
Join our events
We host affordable family-friendly activities, delicious afternoon cream teas and expert-led walks throughout the year.
Volunteer with us
Whether you enjoy working outdoors or you love welcoming people with a cuppa, you’re welcome to join our crew.
People and nature working together
We’re Rowhill Nature Reserve Society, a registered charity set up to conserve and protect Rowhill Copse and its animal and plant life. With so much to see and do in one relatively compact site and so many residential areas around, we see the site as an invaluable asset to the community.
The River Blackwater rises in a bog near the top of the site and trickles through Stickleback Pond and a winding woodland stream down to Kingfisher carr. If you’re lucky you’ll see an egret and other wildlife attracted to the water. In the trees above, listen for woodpeckers, coal tits, chiffchaffs and the mistle thrush.
A hub of activity, our field centre sits next to the car park. Home to a local history archive, a natural history library, community events and seasonal family craft sessions, it’s also the starting point for nature walks and educational visits. Join us for wreath-making workshops at Christmas, fascinating fungi forays in the autumn and delicious cream teas on certain Sundays of the month. Check out our events page for up-to-date information.
The coppicing area is the working part of the wood. An ancient forest management technique dating back to the stone age, we maintain mixed chestnut and hazel coppice. If you live locally and you’ve heard chainsaws at work, that’s probably us!
We’re grateful to our huge team of volunteers – everyone from our dedicated conservationists to the regulars who run the field centre. We’re a community group and we’re proud of what we do.
We look forward to welcoming you.
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You can help with the upkeep and maintenance of Rowhill Nature Reserve by either volunteering or donating.
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